Apparently all the buffoonery going on at HP hasn't slowed their performance. Of course, the only reason we know this is because of all that buffoonery. Due to the "inadvertent disclosure of financial information relating to HP's recently completed second fiscal quarter," HP's 2nd quarter financials have gone public a week early--and they're looking good.
The company is looking at $25.5 billion in revenue, which comes in well over their $24.5 billion forecast. Naturally, this tidbit of information didn't go ignored as HP shares got a 3% bump in pre-market trading Tuesday.
All of this from what is speculated as being a simple email error. Although it's fortunate that it was good news, we can't help but wonder what's going on over there in Palo Alto--especially after that whole pretexting debacle.
So, what life lesson can we take away from this? Always compose your emails as drafts.
